Mesoponera
| Mesoponera | |
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| M. melanaria worker | |
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| Family: | Formicidae
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| Genus: | Mesoponera Emery, 1900
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| Type species | |
| Ponera melanaria Emery, 1893
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 20 species | |
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Xiphopelta Forel, 1913 | |
Mesoponera is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. It is found in the tropics, from Sub-Saharan Africa to Australia.[2]
Species[]
- (André, 1890)
- (Forel, 1900)
- (Smith, 1858)
- (Forel, 1891)
- (Forel, 1910)
- (Weber, 1942)
- (Wheeler, 1922)
- (Viehmeyer, 1924)
- Mesoponera melanaria (Emery, 1893)
- (Bernard, 1953)
- (Bernard, 1953)
- (Viehmeyer, 1914)
- (Bernard, 1953)
- (Smith, 1857)
- (Emery, 1899)
- (Santschi, 1914)
- (Wheeler, 1922)
- (Bernard, 1953)
- (Bernard, 1953)
- (Bernard, 1953)
References[]
- ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Mesoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ^ Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior". Zootaxa. 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID 24943802.
Categories:
- Ponerinae
- Ant genera
- Ponerinae stubs